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New Covid vaccines are coming to the U.S. this fall, but uptake may be low — Here’s why (www.cnbc.com)

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Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are slated to deliver new single-strain Covid shots targeting the omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 in September.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is true, but we also know that kids are a disease vector that especially kicks in after every break, and that adults seem to be more vulnerable than kids.

Messaging on this would suck, but I'd love to see split vaccinations, with kids getting vaccinated in late August. That way, they're less likely to vector the disease and we might tamp down the winter surge, and their 'prime' resistance would run through Christmas. And adults getting vaccinated at the end of October, with their 'prime' resistance running from just before Thanksgiving through the end of the winter heating season.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That sounds like a really cool thing to try and model and then try all sorts of variations on.

Probably a masters thesis or something in there if someone wanted to do it.